A composição visual em pinturas baseadas na obra Vidas Secas, de Graciliano Ramos: uma análise multimodal sob a perspectiva da Gramática do Design Visual

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to understand how students imagetically represented the meanings of the literary work Vidas Secas, by Graciliano Ramos, after a didactic intervention proposal. Our corpus is exclusively composed of images - paintings - and from this, we seek to verify how the scenario is represented in the images, as well as to observe the characterization of the characters and other elements in the reproduced images, in order to understand the meanings constructed from the students' reading skills and the production of meanings based on the social themes addressed in the work. To carry out this work, we made use of the theoretical framework in studies on Multimodality, based on the New London Group (1996); analysis of the images under the categories of Representational, Interactive and Compositional metafunction of the theoretical and methodological proposal of the Grammar of Visual Design, by Kress and van Leeuwen (2002, 2011); and the construction of meanings in the light of the Social Semiotics theory, with discussions based on the contributions of Halliday (1978), Hodge; Kress, (1988). From the analysis of the visual resources used by the producers of the images, the results point us to the fact that, in much of the representations, it can be seen how the discourse of social segregation is very present, when we recognize that there is not necessarily a special emphasis on human figures, in relation to the figure of the animals represented.